Project Quantity Surveyor

Project Quantity Surveyor | Stratford, London (1-2 days per week) | £53,660 to £67,000 + £1,300 car allowance

They also offer a competitive benefits package:

• Strong family-friendly policies
• Committed Learning & Development
• Annual leave starting from 28 days rising to 31 plus bank holidays
• Excellent Pension Scheme – double contribution up to 6%
• Generous non-contributory life assurance
• An Employee Assistance Programme
• Great places to work certified 2023-2024

Our client is looking for a proven Commercial Professional with extensive Quantity Surveying experience to join the Property Services Commercial team. Project Quantity Surveyors have up to 3 direct reports and the role reports to the Managing Quantity Surveyor.

• The Project Quantity Surveyor is responsible for the financial and contractual administration of projects carried out, ensuring that general quantity surveying duties are performed to the highest standard and ensuring full contractual and monetary entitlement in the most advantageous terms, with accountability for savings on projects.
• The post holder will take full ownership of the project and workstream to ensure all costs and required contracts are in place.
• Being confident in supporting operational colleagues and all other relevant colleagues to ensure that all significant project issues and correspondence and all necessary contractual processes have been observed.
• You'll be able to take control of the management of subcontractors and suppliers to always achieve best value to a programme whilst protecting the business contractually and providing accurate financial forecasting.
• You will be working client-side for a large social housing provider on a wide range of planned maintenance and housing improvement projects.

The postholder will have experience and knowledge on:

• Providing mitigation strategies for immediate implementation of all matters relating to contract and subcontract for review by Managing Quantity Surveyor or Head of Commercial.
• Managing budgetary constraints using forensic cost control techniques
• Strong analytical skills and will be highly numerate with data interrogation skills
• Experience of managing principal and subcontractor arrangements
• Be confident in managing poor performance.
• You will have a good understanding of Cost value reconciliation for a workstream
• Commercial Awareness with good legal/contractual knowledge
• Competent in use of standard methods of measurement
• Degree or HNC level in a related discipline or equivalent substantial experience
• It is desirable to for candidates to be professionally qualified member of CIOB / RICS but not essential.

This is a hybrid role with 3-4 days per week working from home and 1-2 days per week in the London Stratford offices or out on-site.